is this still a common problem? i have not seen a fish with lateral line disease in a long time. some tangs in my lfs used to have this disease a couple years go, not recently and you dont read about the problem online anymore. makes you think what has changed.
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lateral line disease still a problem?
- Thread starter fungia
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I think improved diet has helped.
A year or so ago I noticed both my tangs had pin holes on their heads. It occurred to me that over the years I had become very lazy about what I fed them. Their diet had come to consist of caulerpa from the fuge and either raw shrimp or silversides, that's it. I just had been thinking because they were plump, that they were healthy.
I bought some selcon, added a wider variety of fish flesh to the diet, started feeding nori again, and added a fortified flake food. I also fed them broccolli for a while after reading it is a good source of Vit C and that helps with HLLE. I don't know how much the broccolli helped, but I was feeling so guilty for letting them get this way that I was trying anything (and my sailfin loves it) They healed up. Whew!!!
A year or so ago I noticed both my tangs had pin holes on their heads. It occurred to me that over the years I had become very lazy about what I fed them. Their diet had come to consist of caulerpa from the fuge and either raw shrimp or silversides, that's it. I just had been thinking because they were plump, that they were healthy.
I bought some selcon, added a wider variety of fish flesh to the diet, started feeding nori again, and added a fortified flake food. I also fed them broccolli for a while after reading it is a good source of Vit C and that helps with HLLE. I don't know how much the broccolli helped, but I was feeling so guilty for letting them get this way that I was trying anything (and my sailfin loves it) They healed up. Whew!!!
i had a sailfin tang come in my work so bady eroded that it had no dorals or anal fins, and his pectorals were almost completley gone, his tail 1/2 way. He had no color and the majority of his face was gone. He even had open sores on his spines He now lives in a softy sale tank and is recovering amazingly with a clean enviroment and spectrum pellets and algae to eat. He has all his color back his fins are returning as well. his name is gympy
WRASSER":257irked said:How do you put the broccolli in the tank for the fish to eat it. like you would lettuce?
When I feed the tangs broccoli, I take a frozen florette and clip it in my hemostats, (I have an 18 inch pair for grabbing things in the tank) Then I use a clamp, like for woodworking, to clip the hemostats to the tank hood with the broccoli in the water. My tangs are big and aggressive feeders so whatever I use to hold food has to be very strong.
And I have no idea if it made a difference. I was just trying anything, just grabbing at straws. I felt kind of silly using a terrestrial food for a marine animal, but some people swore success with it and the tangs sure seemed to like it. The hippo tang will only eat the florettes but the sailfin ate the stalk and everything. Even the flame angels liked it.
But if you want to feed it that is a good way to go about it.
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